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301. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Response_Active Surveillance Culturing of Clostridioides difficile and Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales, and Candida auris (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2024 - What studies have assessed the effectiveness and unintended effects of active surveillance PSPs for … What Studies Have Assessed the Effectiveness and Unintended Effects of Active Surveillance PSPs for … Four studies were assessed to be at moderate risk of bias, one study was at low risk, and one study … Both studies were assessed to have a moderate risk of bias. … Finally, we did not find any studies that assessed the effectiveness of ASC for C.

302. Amended Protocol: Improving Rural Health Through Telehealth-Guided Provider-to-Provider Communication (pdf file)
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     February 25, 2021 - Literature identified during the update search will be assessed by following the same process of dual … Controlled trials and observational studies will be assessed using a priori established criteria consistent … In general, observational studies that do not perform adjustment for potential confounders will be assessed … Major Comparisons and Outcomes: The strength of evidence (SOE) for each Key Question will be initially assessed … Effectiveness Reviews.52 To ensure reliability and validity of the evaluation, the body of evidence will be assessed

303. Prostate-Cancer-Risk-Assessment-Genes Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/prostate-cancer-risk-assessment-genes_executive.pdf
     July 01, 2012 - We could not assess consistency of results for panels assessed in single studies only. … For one panel (Focus 5), evaluated in multiple studies, consistency could not be assessed quantitatively … However, when assessed using test evaluation designs, the risk models based on SNP panels improved the

304. Primary Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer: Research Protocol (pdf file)
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     April 17, 2024 - The key domains assessed in ROBINS-I include confounding, selection of participants, classification … The strength of evidence will be assessed as low, moderate, high, or insufficient, and the magnitude … of the effect will be assessed according to Table 2. … relevant, additional domains, such as dose-response association and strength of association, will also be assessed

305. Disposition of Comment Report for Wireless Motility Capsule Versus Other Diagnostic Technologies for Evaluating Gastroparesis and Constipation (pdf file)
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     May 20, 2013 - TEP 1 General I think this section was appropriate in defining the population to be assessed. … No studies directly assessed using capsule internationally or in a community- based environment to measure … Without WMC whole gut transit would be assessed by whole gut transit scintigraphy which is available … We agree entirely and made the point of whole gut transit being assessed in the discussion section. … Applicability is assessed separately in our review.

306. Appendicitis Executive (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - Assessment of the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We assessed the risk of bias for each study using … Meta-analyses were conducted using Bayesian methods with flat (minimally informative) priors.63 We assessed … We assessed directness of the evidence on the basis of the use of surrogate outcomes or the need for … We assessed the precision of the evidence on the basis of the degree of certainty surrounding each effect … These studies assessed various comparisons across different modalities (or different versions of the

307. Tonsillectomy for Obstructive Sleep-Disordered Breathing or Recurrent Throat Infection in Children (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2017 - Two reviewers independently assessed the full text of each included study potentially addressing a … methods based on the Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews.13 We assessed … Insufficient: Evidence is either unavailable or does not permit a conclusion.14 Applicability We assessed … No PTH was associated with laser approaches, but few studies assessed this modality. … Two RCTs assessed whether steroids affected time to return to normal diet with favorable effects associated

308. Stroke-Atrial-Fibrillation Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - We also assessed publication bias. … Applicability We assessed applicability across our KQs using the method described in the Methods Guide … Regarding the outcomes assessed, all 17 studies evaluated bleeding risk prediction scores with respect … , and provided inconclusive findings (insufficient strength of evidence for all outcomes assessed) … These studies assessed anticoagulation during or after ablation procedures, other operative procedures

309. Respectful Maternity Care: Dissemination and Implementation of Perinatal Safety Culture to Improve Equitable Maternal Healthcare Delivery and Outcomes (pdf file)
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     September 16, 2022 - Literature identified during the updated search will be assessed using the same process of dual review … Controlled trials and observational studies will be assessed using a priori established criteria consistent … Applicability to U.S. practice settings will be assessed based on the Evidence-based Practice Center … individual studies, the strength of evidence (SOE) for each Question or Quality will be initially assessed … of evidence, and determining a final rating.47 Assessing Applicability Applicability will be assessed

310. Evidence Summary Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 250: Living Systematic Review on Cannabis and Other Plant-Based Treatments for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2021 - Strength of evidence was assessed as low, moderate, high, or insufficient, and magnitude of effect was … assessed according to Table A.

311. Pharma-Nonpharma-Ptsd-2022-Update-App-G1 (xls file)
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     January 01, 2022 - 5.2) Is the numerical result being assessed likely to have been selected, on the basis of the results … 5.3) Is the numerical result being assessed likely to have been selected, on the basis of the results

312. EHC Protocol: Making Healthcare Safer IV: Deprescribing to Reduce Medication Harms in Older Adults (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2023 - What studies have assessed the effectiveness and unintended effects of deprescribing and what new evidence … done for the MHS III report, in English and performed in the United States, and having each study assessed

313. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 2022 Update of the PTSD-Repository Evidence Base (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2022 - Perhaps the authors could note in the abstract that the strength of the evidence was not assessed for … We state that Strength of Evidence was not assessed for this review in the Methods section of the text … Additional studies from the prior reports will be assessed for ROB2 in future annual updates. … The authors mention in the discussion that RoB was assessed by one person and then checked, rather than

314. March 2nd Mitigating Racial Bias in Healthcare Algorithms Public Meeting (pdf file)
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     May 15, 2023 - and KQ 2; selected eligible full-length research studies published in English for one or both KQs • Assessed … Longer term implications have not been assessed. … Downsides of potential over-screening were not assessed. … inequities • Ensure that algorithms included in clinical guidelines and recommendations statements are assessed

315. Template for Reports Developed (pdf file)
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     March 08, 2012 - experience symptoms of allergic conjunctivitis, such as itchy and watery eyes.1 Treatment effectiveness is assessed … Quality will be assessed by two independent reviewers with tools recommended in the AHRQ Methods Guide … The quality of abstracted studies will be assessed by two independent reviewers. … Other included observational studies will be assessed based on a selection of items proposed by Deeks … The applicability of the body of evidence for each KQ will be assessed by two reviewers with agreement

316. Interventions To Prevent Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Clinical Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cognitive-decline-disposition-170707pdf.pdf
     March 24, 2017 - We assessed strength of evidence according to AHRQ methodology (as noted by the references), not GRADE … Eligible studies assessed as high risk of bias were not analyzed because we had little confidence in … Carlson 2015 does appear to be eligible, but would be assessed as high risk of bias due to the high … Carlson 2015 does appear to be eligible, but would be assessed as high risk of bias due to the high … Eligible studies assessed as high risk of bias were not analyzed because we had little confidence in

317. Glaucoma-Screening Surveillance (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - abstracting the study conditions and findings for each new included study into an evidence table, we assessed … some new evidence that might change the CER conclusion, and /or a minority of responding experts assessed … One study assessed the effect of optic disc size on the diagnostic accuracy of RTVue spectral domain … At One new study that assessed the use of iCare rebound tonometry compared with None found 5 … Evidence from Primary Studies: Several additional studies assessed the performance of glaucoma screening

318. Interventions To Prevent Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Clinical Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia (pdf file)
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     March 24, 2017 - We assessed strength of evidence according to AHRQ methodology (as noted by the references), not GRADE … Eligible studies assessed as high risk of bias were not analyzed because we had little confidence in … Carlson 2015 does appear to be eligible, but would be assessed as high risk of bias due to the high … Carlson 2015 does appear to be eligible, but would be assessed as high risk of bias due to the high … Eligible studies assessed as high risk of bias were not analyzed because we had little confidence in

319. Atrial-Fibrillation Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2013 - Applicability We assessed applicability across the KQs using the method described in the Methods Guide … A total of 14 RCTs involving 1,017 patients were identified that assessed the use of pharmacological … The primary outcome reported for this KQ, assessed in all but one study, was control of ventricular … A total of 42 RCTs involving 5,780 patients were identified that assessed the use of antiarrhythmic … A total of 83 studies met our inclusion criteria and assessed the comparative safety and effectiveness

320. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/type-2-diabetes-medications-update_research-protocol.pdf
     April 06, 2010 - concern about risks and benefits associated with thiazolidinediones,11, 12 which was not systematically assessed … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies Article quality will be assessed differently … For both the RCTs and the observational studies, the overall study quality will be assessed as: